Sentences with phrase «transportation sectors changing»

Musk and Buffett see the energy and transportation sectors changing in similar ways, and, over the past few years, their companies have increasingly competed with each other over both solar energy and electric cars.

Not exact matches

«It's also going to change how our kids learn in classes, how we stay healthy, how doctors and hospitals work, energy, transportation, even the food sector.»

In other areas, many Districts reported growth in the transportation sector, little change in residential construction, slight gains in non-residential building, and steady loan demand.

CIHT's Director of Communications Daniel Isichei said: «The conference will allow delegates to learn from good practice in the sector and we are showcasing how transportation professionals are delivering infrastructure in uncertain times, such as with changes in local and sub national government.»

He promised the audience that although the change desired by Nigerians could not possibly happen in just one year, they would soon start to see an improvement in the transportation sector, as a lot of work going on in the background.

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.

Liquids — including biofuels — will continue to be the primary energy source in the world's transportation sector unless there are «significant technological advances» and despite several policy changes, EIA said.

But reducing emissions from the transportation sector is an increasingly important theme for Obama as he works to build a legacy of climate change action.

Trump, who has called climate change a «hoax,» has re-committed the U.S. to coal energy, which was the largest single source of climate pollution in the U.S. until being eclipsed by the transportation sector last year.

Results: What could you change about our nation's energy, transportation, and other sectors if you could synthesize a material with exactly the properties that you needed on demand and with high purity?

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

Climate change is an extensive problem, rooted deep in our world's energy and transportation sectors.

This structural accounting model for transportation energy use generates mid-term forecasts of the transportation sector's energy use in order to evaluate the effect of changes in fuel economy on carbon emissions.

The transportation sector, as one of the largest and fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is becoming a major policy focus for addressing climate change.

... America's methane might contribute as much to climate change as its entire transportation sector.

As the Associated Press notes, that means America's methane might contribute as much to climate change as its entire transportation sector.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

Responding to climate change provides opportunities to improve human health and well - being across many sectors, including energy, agriculture, and transportation.

A major infrastructural change to our transportation sector is needed, and that change must come from the federal government through direct, targeted policy aimed at eliminating our use of hydrocarbon fuel in cars, trucks, and airplanes.

Climate change responses employed by other sectors (for example, energy, agriculture, transportation) are creating new ecosystem stresses, but also can incorporate ecosystembased approaches to improve their efficacy.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

Our council — including top companies in the power, manufacturing, transportation, high - tech, oil and gas, finance, and other sectors — is the largest U.S. - based group of companies devoted solely to addressing climate change.

Third, the likely change from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles in the transportation sector also effectively links transportation, and its fuel use, to the electricity generation sector and its fuel use (renewable or fossil fuel based).

Meat and dairy generate more global greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector, yet reducing the consumption of animal products through institutional purchasing remains a largely untapped yet highly effective, cost - saving approach to mitigating climate change while promoting public health.

It includes the results of the economic assessments of the impacts of climate change on the agricultural, coastal and marine, energy and transportation, health, freshwater resources and tourism sectors in the Caribbean subregion; and an examination of adaptation strategies and key policy recommendations for policymakers.

Because of its near - total dependence on petroleum fuels, the U.S. transportation sector is responsible for about a third of our country's climate - changing emissions.

Also included in this larger figure is $ 86 million to support clean energy regulatory actions that focus on energy efficiency; $ 48 million to develop transportation sector regulations and next - generation clean transportation initiatives; $ 58 million for projects that improve our understanding of climate change impacts; and $ 25 million to advance Canada's engagement in international negotiations and support the Canada-U.S. Clean Energy Dialogue.

A major development was the decision at the 2007 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Bali, Indonesia, to recognize forest conservation as a means for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, which accounts for roughly one - fifth of emissions — more than the entire transportation sector.

These changes and other climatic changes have affected and will continue to affect human health, water supply, agriculture, transportation, energy, coastal areas, and many other sectors of society, with increasingly adverse impacts on the American economy and quality of life.3

Sectors affected by climate changes include agriculture, water, human health, energy, transportation, forests, and ecosystems.

On their own, CAFE standards are a very big deal as the transportation sector has now eclipsed the electric power as the largest source of climate changing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the U.S..

That amount of climate change has started causing problems for Americans in sectors ranging from construction and transportation to agriculture and forestry to health, the report says.

According to Rainforest Action Network, «Worldwide, tropical deforestation contributes as many emissions to climate change as those from the global transportation sector.

STEVE ELBERT, Vice Chairman, BP America: BP believes that all emitting sectors of the economy, including the transportation sector, both fuels and vehicles, must be included in any national climate change policy.

When it comes to stopping and reversing the trend of rising energy use in the transportation sector, TEF project researchers see changes to the built environment, strategies to decrease personal travel, improvements in energy efficiency, and replacing truck freight with more energy - efficient rail and marine modes as holding the greatest potential.

The state's electricity, natural gas, and transportation sectors must continuously respond to changes in supply and demand, new policies and technologies and their associated challenges, and increasing environmental regulation.

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank investment's for the transportation sector.

If the transportation sector is to become cleaner, major changes will need to happen, not just a gain of a few MPG.

Though Turkey will not be obligated to reduce its emissions until 2012, when the second commitment period goes into force, doing so will involve changes for its agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and other industries that the government estimates will cost the public and private sector a combined 58 billion Euros.

Elsewhere in the private sector, employment in manufacturing, construction, wholesale trade, transportation, information, and financial activities showed little change in October.

How millennials» transportation and housing choices will change as they age is much on the minds of various sectors of the transportation industry, REALTORS ®, developers and planners.